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CATHOLICS DECRY WHITMAN BRIDGE; Poet's Life Is Objectionable, They Say in Protest Over Naming Camden Span

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December 17, 1955,

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CAMDEN, N. J., Dec. 16 -- Roman Catholics of the Camden diocese opened a campaign today to prevent the naming of a new Delaware River bridge after Walt Whitman. They contended that the poet's "life and works are personally objectionable to us."

December 17, 1955

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